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  • Well is there a commonality to the files you want to exclude, so that wildcards could be used? If not, then you have to just list them all in the include file. Commented May 2, 2012 at 12:32
  • Yeah, I think I could use wildcards but can a directory be a wildcard? Will it know to copy the matching directory recursively and not apply the exclude * inside a match directory? That's my confusion in a nutshell. Commented May 2, 2012 at 12:36